Monday 9 July
08.30 - 09.30	Registration	
10.00 - 11.00 	Keynote Speaker -- Jerome McGann (University of Virginia)
'D. G. Rossetti: From Arts and Crafts to Digitization'	
11.00 - 11.30	Tea / Coffee break	
11.30 - 13.00	1st Parallel session:	
 	1. Italy and Italianness in the Lives & Works of the Rossettis

Chair: Wei Wei Yeo, 
National University of Singapore

 Michele Martinez (Trinity College, Hartford) 'Christina Rossetti's Petrarch'
 Chris Keirstead (Auburn) 'Last Rites for a "Lost Ideal": "A Last Confession" and the Myth of Italy in Victorian Poetry'
 Eun-Jung Cha (University of Sussex) 'Christina Rossetti's Italy'
	8. Casting Fresh Eyes at Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Chair: J.B. Bullen, 
University of Reading

 Lauren Roussillon (Université de Grenoble) ' "Aspecta Medusa": the Many Faces of Medusa in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Art'
 Annalisa Zox-Weaver (University of Southern California) 'Consuming Bodies: Pornology, Textualization and the Rossetti Woman'
 Matthew Potolsky (University of Utah) 'How to Look at a Medusa: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Mirror for Teachers'
	
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch	
14.00 - 15.30	2nd parallel session:	
 	3. Picturing the Rossettis in Various Places of 19th C London

Chair: John Harvey, 
Emmanuel College, Cambridge

 Peter Mandler (London Guildhall University) 'The Taxman and the Aesthete: the Canon according to William Michael Rossetti, 1887 - 1904'
 Emma Mason (University of Warwick) 'A Sort of Aesthetico-Catholic Revival: Christina Rossetti, Ritual Ceremony and Christ Church, London'
 Bertrand Rougé (Université de Pau) ' "Mauvais sujet": Invisibility in Pre-Raphaelite Painting'	6. Politics and Identity: Feminism - Socialism – Cosmopolitanism

Chair: Jan Marsh, 
University of Sussex

 Sherri Smith (Marshall University) ' "Why did you melt your waxen man?": The Femme Fatale, the New Woman, and the Ends of Sex Masquerade'
 Gavin Budge (University of Central England in Birmingham) 'Socialism and Sensualism in D. G. Rossetti: Problems of "the Aesthetic" in the Victorian period'
 Angela Thirlwell (Birkbeck College) 'William Michael and Lucy Rossetti: Outsider Insiders - The True Cosmopolitans'	
15.45 - 16.30	Keynote Speaker -- Clive Wilmer (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)
'Maundering Medievalism: D.G. Rossettiand William Morris as Poets'	
16.30 – 19.00	Coffee/tea, free period – time in Cambridge, and dinner	
19.00 - 20.00	Julia Grella, and ensemble (New York) - "Victorian Italians: 'Social Evenings' and Salon Music in the Rossettis' London"  - Lecture Recital 	

Tuesday 10 July 
10.00 - 11.00	Keynote Speaker -- Jan Marsh (University of Sussex)
'Sibling Cultures: Italy, England and the Rossettis'	
11.00 - 11.30	Tea / Coffee break	
11.30 - 13.00	3rd parallel session:	
 	4. Looking at Bodies Dead and Alive in Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti

Chair: Jan-Melissa Schramm, Trinity Hall, Cambridge

 Phyllis Weliver (Suffolk University, Boston) and Suzanne Fagence-Cooper (Victoria and Albert Museum) 'A “rapturous undersong”: music in D.G.Rossetti’s pictures and The House of Life poems
 Andrew Stauffer (California State University) 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Exhumation Proofs'
 Wei Wei Yeo (National University of Singapore) '‘Each in Other’s Eyes / Is Imaged All Alone’:  Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Art of Frames '	5. Science and Religion

Chair: David Clifford, 
Clare Hall, Cambridge

 Mariaconcetta Costantini (Universita 'G. d'Annunzio') 'Christina's Challenge to Victorian Mentality: the Parodic, Unconventional Pattern of "My Dream"'
 Valeria Tinkler-Villani (Leiden University) 'The Allegorist, the Scientist and the Poet: from Gabriele Rossetti and Charles Lyell to Christina Rossetti'
 Maria Keaton (Marquette University) 'Mystic, Madwoman or Metaphysician? : the Analogical Theodicy of Christina Rossetti'	
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch	
14.00 - 15.30	4th parallel session:	
 	2. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Literary Tradition(s)

Chair: Lauren Roussillon, 
Université de Grenoble

 Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London) 'D. G. Rossetti and the Feminine'
 Florence Boos (University of Iowa) 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poetic Daughters: Introspective Lyricism in Fin de Siècle and Modernist British Women Poets'
 John Holmes (Lincoln College, Oxford) 'Pursuing the Well-Beloved: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Jocelyn Pearston, and the Victorian Sonneteers'	7. The Rossettis and the Politics of Publication in Victorian London

Chair: Jerome McGann, 
University of Virginia

 Mary Arseneau (University of Ottawa) 'Pews, Periodicals, and Politics: The Rossetti Women as High Church Controversialists'
 Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Nipissing University) 'Poetry and Power Relations in the Victorian World of International Publishing'
 Michelle Hawley (California State University) 'Romantic Editions: William Michael Rossetti, Political Commitment, and the Production of Cultural Capital'	
15.30 - 16.30	Keynote Speaker -- J.B. Bullen (University of Reading)
‘Rossetti, Fantasy, and Narcissicism’	
16.30 - 17.00	Tea / Coffee break	
17.00 - 18.30	Closing session